Cheryl K. Chumley

Kim Jong-un buys up luxury imports as N. Korea starves and struggles

North Korea may be reliant on overseas countries to feed its people, but that isn’t keeping dictator Kim Jong-un from partaking of numerous luxury shopping trips.

October 14, 2013

New JFK book: Lone gunman theory holds true

A long-simmering debate among historians, conspiracy theorists and avid Kennedy clan readers may be put to rest with a new book about the JFK assassination in 1963 that finds the lone gunman argument is likely the correct one.

October 14, 2013

San Francisco transit union halts walk-off in 11th hour deal

Union members reached an eleventh hour deal with transit authorities in San Francisco and agreed to postpone a scheduled job walk-off on Monday that would have caused a transportation nightmare for commuters.

October 14, 2013

Macy’s mulls stop to 155-year tradition with Thanksgiving opening

Macy’s department stores are mulling the end of a 155-year tradition that let employees relax on the Thanksgiving holiday, and depending on what customers want, may open doors to shoppers that day at 8 p.m.

October 14, 2013

Margaret Thatcher book: Iron Lady worried that Obama was pulling America too far left

Authors of a new book about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher say that while the Iron Lady wouldn't speak publicly about President Obama and his policies, she did have strong feelings about his leadership and whispered them before she died.

October 14, 2013

‘Sex Week’ at University of Maryland billed as ‘exploration’ opportunity

University of Maryland is featuring a "Sex Week," aimed at teaching college students how to properly select sex toys in an eco-friendly manner.

October 14, 2013

Ted Cruz like OJ? Twitter explodes at comparison

A correspondent for the New Yorker unwittingly unleashed a wave of fury on Twitter after he posted a derogatory profiling of Sen. Ted Cruz, likening the Texas tea party favorite to a celebrity athlete who beat murder charges.

October 14, 2013

Popular sports supplement spiked with speed-like substance: report

A widely sold sports supplement both in the United States and abroad has been found to have been spiked with a chemical substance that's akin to methamphetamine — speed — and is based on an illegal designer drug that's used for recreation, scientists in South Korea and America found, USA Today reported.

October 14, 2013

Leon Panetta: Military readiness ‘badly damaged’ by sequester

Remember sequester cuts? In all the brouhaha on Capitol Hill about the fate of Obamacare, the fate of the budget and continuing resolutions and the fate of government’s day-to-day operations, the fallout from mandated cost-cuts has fallen under the radar – but former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised the specter on Sunday.

October 14, 2013

Hamas seeks to relocate leadership to Iran

The leader of Hamas is taking a select few of his followers to Tehran this week in what’s being billed as a reach-out to Iran for stronger support and for permission to relocate exiled ranks to the country.

October 14, 2013

Alec Baldwin premieres on MSNBC: Police are ‘lazy,’ God picks my women

So Hollywood leftist Alec Baldwin kicked off his premiere news talk show on MSNBC this weekend — and his signature temper tantrum-type personality kicked in quickly, with put-downs of New York's police as lazy lawbreakers with racist tendencies.

October 14, 2013

Sarah Palin to Cory Booker: ‘Don’t be measuring the drapes’ on Capitol Hill

Former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin jumped into the New Jersey race for Senate this weekend, lending her voice and celebrity status to her fellow GOPer, Steve Lonegan, and telling his Democratic contender to slow down — the finish line is still a ways away.

October 14, 2013

Iran’s Hassan Rouhani calls for open doors on education

Iran's new president sent a scathing message on Monday to those in his country who would seek to limit scientific inquiry and the pursuit of higher learning: Stop it.

October 14, 2013

London police arrest 4 on terrorism charges

Armed law enforcement officers stormed three separate sites in downtown London late Sunday and took into custody four men on terrorism-related charges.

October 14, 2013

TV propaganda? $500K grant to sneak pro-Obamacare messages in shows

A California foundation has given an entertainment group that in part helps television writers craft their scripts a $500,000 grant to sneak in pro-Obamacare messages in upcoming shows.

October 11, 2013

Facebook gets rid of privacy search feature — as CEO ups personal privacies

Facebook users who think that they are safe from unwanted social contacts because of tools that keeps their name from appearing on searches ought to think again. The company announced it would no longer feature that control button.

October 11, 2013

Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards named as target for bizarre bomb plot

Police have arrested a retired chemist from Connecticut after he allegedly admitted he was planning to blow up Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones, and apparently had a stockpile of explosives in his home.

October 11, 2013

Al Gore, Twitter owner? Former vice president tried to buy company

Al Gore tried to buy Twitter in 2005 in hopes of tying it with his just-launched Current TV, a new book about the social media's inception and growth revealed.

October 11, 2013

Sen. John McCain slams GOP — but says Republicans need to stick together

Sen. John McCain — who recently referred to three of his Capitol Hill colleagues as "wackos" — has now said he's learned a valuable lesson and advises against getting personal in politics.

October 11, 2013

Marco Rubio, Debbie Wasserman Schultz trade fire over shutdown

Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz lit up the political stage this week, in a contentious, angry exchange that began when the Democratic National Committee chair accused the GOP in general for the government shutdown and in specific, Mr. Rubio and fellow senator colleague Ted Cruz.

October 11, 2013